Unavenged

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature — that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance — and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Far outside Moscow, in the scattered republics, anything goes – and goes unavenged. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He must not harm his mother, but not doing so leaves his father unavenged. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

In his awakening to the existential uncertainty of the modern tragic hero, he gets that these are really determinae: he should avenge his father even if doing so entails harming his mother; he should not harm his mother even if not doing so leaves his father unavenged. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? ❋ Unknown (2007)

He lay beautiful inside his mound, though dead by violence and unavenged: it seemed that he was chanting verses about honour, and four lights burned in corners of the chamber. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So how come the entire nation is worrying itself sick over whether Officer Crowley should have pinched the blithering Gates, while 500 crackers are raped and killed, unreported, unlamented, unavenged? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The historian Sallust 8635 B.C. first sounded this note by commenting that he did not die quickly or unavenged. ❋ Barry Strauss (2009)